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Here’s a short collection of quotes about education and learning. Why not add your favorites?

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, THAT is to have be educated in the knowledge of simplicity. Frank Lloyd Wright

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action Herbert Spencer“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell HolmesSomebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. Albert Einstein

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. The he maide School Boards. Mark Twain

Learning is not a spectator sport. Anonymous

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn Alvin Toffler

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates–1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don’t know what happened on either occasion Mark Twain

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yates.

This is an excellent and facinating video about current and future trends. It shows how fast things are really changing and what it will mean to be literate in the future. Shakespere was said to have a very large vocabulary of about 25,000 words. Today there are more than 1,000,000 words in the dictionary.

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